Adjective : haunting music; haunting memories. From Dictionary.com.
Tilda Swinton looks "hauntingly" beautiful in her new campaign for Pringle of Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
It is a hauntingly beautiful spot - and a tragic one. From Wordnik.com. [Don, 84, the unlikely angel at Australia's gate] Reference
As Ree, Jennifer Lawrence is hauntingly self-contained. From Wordnik.com. ['Winter's Bone:' A Miraculous Film From The Ozarks] Reference
SNOW: With images that some here find hauntingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2005] Reference
Yet this chamber is hauntingly silent -- hauntingly silent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2003] Reference
Then the song was augmented by a hauntingly lovely accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
The faint notes swept her heart, bittersweet and hauntingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
For all its triumphs, there's something hauntingly sad about this book. From Wordnik.com. [Score One For Our Great, Sad Game] Reference
John Hardy's music, up to now hauntingly atmospheric, begins to impose. From Wordnik.com. [The Persians] Reference
Memories of a hauntingly similar tragedy that struck her four years ago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference
SIMON: Let's hear some of the music, because it is hauntingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [First Listen: Cecilia Bartoli, 'Sacrificium'] Reference
O'BRIEN: It's hauntingly like the, parallels to "The Perfect Storm" there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2001] Reference
A miniature white house, with tall classical columns, hauntingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye'] Reference
The image most hauntingly reminiscent of the September 11 attacks is from Tampa. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2002] Reference
Seen side by side, the more than 100 paintings on display are hauntingly similar. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
And hauntingly, all of my CTC friends, independently, said exactly the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2004] Reference
One person today called it hauntingly persuasive, what they put out on the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference
His music is beautiful, discordant and hauntingly sad, much like "Carrington" itself. From Wordnik.com. [Love, Bloomsbury Style] Reference
Searchers came from all over the area, including a man whose story is hauntingly similar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2005] Reference
He wet his lips, and then the hauntingly mournful tones of Taps floated out over the air. From Wordnik.com. [Joint Operations]
This is, well, this is - that was hauntingly beautiful, this is kind of fast and furious. From Wordnik.com. [First Listen: Cecilia Bartoli, 'Sacrificium'] Reference
There was something hauntingly familiar about this confident, well-spoken, young professor. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
On the road again is another great funny, wierd song and Baby Blue is hauntingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing It All Back Home] Reference
We're going to scare you with the top 10 list of the hauntingly scary lighthouses in America. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2006] Reference
Gregorian chant is stylized and fairly predictable, yet it is hauntingly effective as tribute. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Say, Can You Sing?] Reference
The colour of the dead face reminded the Subaltern hauntingly of the grey walls of the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
But the story of Lev Nussimbaum, who became Essad Bey and then Kurban Said, is hauntingly true. From Wordnik.com. [PASSING FOR MUSLIM] Reference
She broke away to look at him, swaying slightly, her eyes blurred from tears, hauntingly miserable. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
And it's all the more effectively devastating when sung in such a hauntingly matter-of-fact manner. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Finch: The Power Of Simplicity] Reference
The child was hauntingly ceramic in a grayish orange or ochre complexion and his body was so tightly rigid. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
In this fierce drama, the echoes of Rhys's desolate existence are brought hauntingly, indelibly, back to life. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For A Home] Reference
The second letter to receive Persis 'attention was addressed in a hand which, like Justin's, seemed hauntingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
As they came near they heard again that same hauntingly sweet melody that had so moved them the first time they had heard it. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
Lee's movie ends, hauntingly, in free fall: an apt image for an entertainment that has the power to sweep us magically off our feet. From Wordnik.com. [Swords, Sense And Sensibility] Reference
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